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Sharp County record., 1887-02-10
True Charity.
,ternal glory shalt thou win."

1t is an inadequate Interpretation oil
charity to think Of it as mere alms-glvlng'
You speak of a certain person known 10
be friend to the poor. "There is Mr.. y,
you say. He is a very generous man
He can't keep money. He doesn't know
the value of money. He would give away
his last cent? Your friend plies: "Ies'
and he is one Of society's most dangerous
enemies. He gives indiscriminately. dc
gives because he hasn't the courage to say
mol And hundreds and thousands OF SILL
less and crafty bummers, frauds, tramp
cranks and other vermin just live and per
petuate themselves on that kind OF Dene'-
Olence," and that is true. Begging Is
business. People get rich at it. Crime i
encouraged by it. Only recently poor
English woman left alone with little SICK
ly babe found that the child excited ln'
sympathy of the people, and she carried IT,
poorly clad and hungry, in her arms from
house to house. Money poured in she
made quite little fortune. But the cruei,
heartless exposure and long-contnueu
hunger slowly murdered the child. Every
one that gave so much as a penny helped
to kill that baby. So, if charity meant
simply aims giving, you could easily imag-
inc conditions and circumstances wherein
it would be an injury to the world zee
Charles COaklhs,
Sharp County record., 1887-02-10
FEEDING SWINE.
The Results of Some Int resting Expert
ments at the Ohio Station.

The Results of Some Int resting Expert
ments at the Ohio Station.
Prof. N. S. Townshend, director of
the Ohio Experiment Station, sends us
the results of some feeding experiment
y'"Vo, ''',''o' - -"'.1'"''''' -. u
least expense. 2. 70 produce flesh
most rapidly, expense not being con-
sidered. 3. To produce most edible
meat, time and expense not to be con-
sidered.
Those fed on corn and skinned milk
Prof. Townshend says, gained in flesh
most steadily.
Early in March, eight sow pigs were
selected and put in pens as follows:
Pen !, two Berkshires and one Poland
China; pen 2, two Poland Chinas and
one Berkshire; pen 3, two Berkshirs.
They were not doing well wPn
put up, and were fed uril
April 9th before the eXpei-
ment was begun. The food from It's
time consisted of the following: Pm
l, (cheap food) corn meal cooked viii
twice its weight of skinned milk, g
I.j4o q nutritlve ratio of 10; pen.!,
(rapid fattening) pea meal cooked with
twice its weight Of skinned milk, Civ
inga nutritive ratio of 1;2.6; pen 3,
for lean meaD equal parts corn meal
and pea meal cooked with an equal
weight Of whole milk, giving nutr-
tive ratio Of 1:3.6
BY dividing the experiment into two
sections of forty-two days each for
in calculation leaving ont
the eight days from June 8 to 16, in
the middle), 1t will be seen that much
the larger part of flesh was laid on dur
inc the first half of the trial.
Sharp County record., 1887-02-10

either him or his tracks. Thus the
story was kept to astOnish and enter
tain chance visitors and newcomers.
Mrs. Robert Paul one day repeated it,
in her husbands hearing, to lady who
lived many miles away. When she was
gone he said, recklesslY:
81 can not endure to hear you tell
that story, and mean to put an end to
it forever; our lynx was Tim!
Tim"
"Yes, few days after the affair, Dan
confidentiallv told me the truth about
it. Tim, it seems, on that afternoon,
mounted Tibbie, and rode off to visit his
father. He returned late, and, unknown
to any one, rode on after the COWS.
Lou being unusually busy that 4fter-
noon. and not knowing of Tim abb
sence, trusted the finding of the cows
to him. As usual, he was unsuccessful.
When milking-time' came, and there
were no cows to milk, Dan told what he
supposed was known, that Tim had
cone away. As YOU will remember,
the night set in very dark. Poor Tim
first became confused, then frightened,
and. under the impulse Of this fear, he
screamed for help until he was exhaust
ed, and then, in sheer despssF, -fe {
dropped the lines on Tibbie's neck and
she, with unerring instinct, came
directly home"
Then, did" began Mrs. Purl.
"There, there, spare me-" interrupt
ed the husband, you were right, as
usual.
"But why did Toms voice sound so
sharp and high9"
Il suppose that was part of his fright,
and the poor fellow made so much
noise himself that he heard not sound
of the commotion in this neighborhood.
But be sure to keep all this a profound
secret, for Tim is very sensitive on the
subject. Dan CHANGED to hear him as
he went stealthily up to bed, and day
or two afterward, by few adroit ques-
tions, he succeeded in worming the
truth from him. Dan has told no one
but me. have kept the secret until
now, and l hope, for Tins sake, that
YOU will take care the story does not
get an airing
Mrs. Purl, being woman, of course
held her peace, and the true story nevet
became current, Therefore, around
the freside of "Rawlington Plains" is
still passed the story of a whole neigh
borhood turning out and unwittingly
signaling lynx" Poor Tim, how
ever, sitting beside his lonely hearth in
the yet misunderstanding log house be-
walls the misfortune brought to hiti by
the mythical lynx which he so inno-
Gently perSonated.- Clara j. Denton, in
Current
Sharp County record., 1887-02-10

-Four starving Cinnamon of New York
have refused chance to earn twenty
five dollars week each by playing fan
fan in dime museum, pleading that 1T
is considered disgrace for any man in
China to make an attraction of himself
before the public. ~ J, Mail,
Sharp County record., 1887-02-10

The cost of the food eaten by the
pigs in pen l and in pen 2 was greater
during the last than during the first
forty-two days. e., more food was
consumed to produce the smaller
weight of flesh. The third lot ate more
food during the first forty-two days,
but gained nearly twice as much flesh
as during the last forty-two days. The
following table exhibits the cost of the
food consumed during these two
periods and the cost of the food re-
quired to produce one pound of flesh;
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-10-28
The FatefIul Message.

In the winter of 1881 a member of
Congress from Pennsylvania district
was in despair. He had failed of a re-
nomination. He was in debt, though a
man of good habits. The future looked
black to him. During the six years he
had served in Congress he had lost his
law practice and he regarded those
years as worse than thrown away. He
had got to begin all over again, and
burdened, too, with debt One evening
as he sat brooding in despair telegram
came. He opened it perfunctorily. It
contained these words:
"You have been nominated by the
Republican caucus for United States
Senator, to succeed Senator Wallace"
Nomination meant election, and Mr.
Mitchell was sure of being United
States Senator. Yet he hesitated. He
did not see that it meant anything more
than staving off for six years his trou-
BILE. and if he had had a dollar in the
world he would have declined the NOM
nation. But he was compelled to accept
the Office because it meant an income.
The six years have gone and Mr.. Mitchell
is out of public life. But he has bettered
but slightly his condition, and he has
always felt that he would have done
we'll had he followed his impulse when
he read that telegram.-N Y Mail.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-10-28
The NeapOlitAn.

The visitor who uses his faculties Of
observation is not long in making the
discovery that the Neapolitan is Of o
different race to the dwellers in the
surrounding country, and he is prob
ably amused to hear with what scorn
he is spoken of by his neighbors. No
greater insult can be offered to man
hailing from Procida or Capri, or one
OF the insignificant neighboring islands,
than to assume him to be Neapolitan.
And so finely is this distinction drawn
that the people living in Santa Lucia,
the very heart Of Naples, decline to be
classified as Neapolitans. In fact, the
different "sezioni," or districts into
which Naples is divided, speaks dis
tinguishable patois, and Il. though
stranger has some difficulty in dis
covering why the Luciani consider
themselves superior to the other sec
tions of the community, there is OBJ
viously wide difference between an
inhabitant of Naples and an ordinary
Italian. In the first place, the Court
of Naples in the Bourbon times always
spoke French or Neapolitan, and ut
terly discountenanced italian. Moth
ing that could be done to keep Naples
Neapolitan was omitted, and everything
that could be done to distinguish it
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-10-28

from Italian was done. Hence the diff
terence T., in race was widely accentuated.
The Italian learned to look upon the
Neapolitan with something more than
dlsfavor. But there is much more
ineligible reason, and one which the
stranger is not slow to discover for
himself For lying and cheating the
true Neapolitan has no equal; his ways
are as childlike and bland as those of
our friend the heather Chinee, and it
IS a marvel if, in any transaction, he
does not succeed with equal cunning in
transferring some of your cash to his
own pocket without an adequate avid
pro quo. Even the Jew is found to be
beaten at his own game here, and has
never gained a foothold in Naples.
Self-respect and shamefacedness are
unknown to the Neapolitan; he pre-.
serves the most unruffled demeanor in
the face of being caught in downright
robbery. It is scarcely to be won.
dered at, then, that his more upright
neighbor protests against being con-
founded with a race he despises.-
M1trrdy'S Muq1zine,
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-10-28
Hospital Children.
Children are generally an {

Children are generally an element of
brightness and innocence in hospital
life; they so easily forget past pain, are
ready to be amused and willing to re-
turn the love expended upon them.
Yet even among the little ones there
are sometimes patients who seem hope
lessly degraded, for whom it appears
impossible todesire anything but death.
Such one was Tommy, little imp
who was banished from the children's
ward as too mischievous to be retained
there any longer, and was therefore
supplied with crib among the men.
Tommy was by the nature of his malady
excitable and the students delighted in
making faces at the weird little Great
ure till his shrill laughter rang through
the ward. Tommy seldom spoke save
to jerk out an oath, and his delight was
in destruction. If he could reach
flower or catch fly, he pulled either
to pieces with equal unconcern and
both counterpart and crib bore marks
of his mischevous propensities. When
the nurse was attending to him she had
to keep a careful watch, or bite or
scratch, would repay her ministrations.
Even after two months residence,
when his malady was much better, he
showed no signs Of gratitude or affec-
ton to those who had cared for him so
long. the Year Bound.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-10-28

time and attention 70 amateur photog-
raphy, and had become possessed with
the insane idea that she could produce
the effect of photography on everything.
The other morning she put a handsome
dress in front of the camera, and placed
herself in para 7aata4ralibis behind It.
She then started out, leaving her room
to take walk, fully possessed with the
idea that she had photographed the
dress on her own charming person.
Unfortunately, however, the first per-
son in the hall she met was one of the
bell-boys, who was so thoroughly
frightened that he gave scream and
darted down the stairs. Assistance was
called, when the young lady was taken
back to her room and dressed, but the
photograph apparatus was thrown out
OF the back window of the hotel.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-10-28
Gen. Houston's Falsehood.

The vote of Gen. Houston in the
United States Senate on the repeal OF
the Missouri compromise rendered him
temporarily unpopular in Texas. In
the political campaign following ne
drew large crowds as usual wherever
he spoke on the hastings, but wa was
sion a local politician, Col. = (call
him Thompson), gave the ola y veteran
The General paused; all eyes were
upon him, and every one was curious
w Would it1 resent sse I'll the wanton insult. He
said promptly and very Deliberately 9iiD 1pId:
"Col. Thompson calls me a llar. ~ n ,i1y
found silence 1 cannot truthfully
saw that in my long life I have never
told falsehood; but, felloW-cltlzens'
7 fo will now tell the biggest lie l ever y!
to % in ali my life--Col. Thompson is a
GENTLEMAN" -Harper's Nagaz'"e'
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-10-28

The Albuquerque IN. NJ Citizen
records the courage and presence of
mind OF lady Of that place. While in
her garden picking berries she felt
something bite her on the neck just be-
low the ear. She quickly put her
hand up to the place, when a centipcde
curled itself around her forefnger. She
Immediately brushed it off with her
other hand, and, strange to relate, did
not faint nor scream, but ran into the
house, and, finding the ammonia bottle
empty, took big knife and stuck the
blade into the fire in the stove until it
got hot, when she applied it to the
wound. Next she took some soda and
applied that, fastening it by wrapping
a cloth around her neck. By this time
her neck began to swell, and she says
she felt as though the top of her head
was about to secede, and closed her
teeth tightly to make sure that her
head was not gone. In short time
she felt greatly relieved, and then in
formed her daughter. She did not
even call for doctor, but she has pro-
cured another supply of ammonia.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-10-28
HinlOO WOrkmen.

The Hindoos of British India, partly
from the enervating influence Of the
climate and the popularity of their
physical temperament, are generally in
dolent and istless. They are most I'M
willing to labor; and thus every species
of it is portioned out, as if for the ex.
press purpose of employing the great
est number of hands possible, leaving
very little for each to do. Hence the
vast horde Of camp-followers attend
ant upon our troops, whether in the
fed or environments, and the vast
number of servants maintained by
European residents for household
duties, the absurd, yet immovable, dis
tinctions of caste prohibiting one in
dividual from taking part in that which
is regarded as the hereditary occupa-
tioa of another caste, from the days
perhaps Of Menou the Lawgiver. 1t is
told, however, of Lord Dalhousie that,
having requested a servant to pour
some water from basin, he declined,
on the plea that it was contrary to his
caste. The marquis sternly drew out
his watch and said, "It is now so-andso
o'clock; if before so-and-so 1 am not
obeyed, shall discharge not only you,
but every man of your caste in Gov
eminent House." And this threat is
said to have proved effectual; for in
many cases the distinction of caste
among servants are carefully main
tanned, because they favor avarice and
sloth, or encourage IN every way the
Discrimination to undergo fatigue. Thus
wages are low; and it is only by the ex-
ercise of the most rigid case and frugal
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-10-28
Lighting Mines.

The desirability of illuminating mines
has long been felt. and scientists have
given much attention to the subject;
but the difficulties which presented
themselves have hitherto proved insur-
mountable, and nothing practical has
therefore resulted from the various
suggestions and experiments which
have been made. To enable the collier
to follow his daily task he is provided
with safety lamp; but to light up the
main roadways of mine with number
Of these lamps would not only increase
the working expenses of pit by the
additional labor which would be neces-
sary to keep them properly cleaned
and trimmed, but such a system would
also augment the chances Of an explo-
sion. When the Davy lamp was intro
duced, the ventilation current in mines
did not exceed a velocity of five or six
feet per second, and in this the lamp
was practically safe; but within recent
years great improvements have been
effected in this respect, and the current
now moves at four times that rate, the
result being that in the presence of
coal dust or fire damp the lamp ceases
to afford security to the miner, mas
much as there is always the danger
that. the swiftness of the ventilating
current may drive point of flame OUT
side the gauze, when of course the
lamp would practically become naked
light, and all the disasters attending an
explosion would ensue. Besides this,
in case mine were Illuminated by
safety lamps there would have to be
faced the risk of their being accident
ally knocked down and broken, and so
catastrophe occurring in that way,
| while there would be the further draw
back that to light up an extensive mine
some thousands of them would be re-
quired, as the flame of each would be
only about half-candle power. It is
therefore clearly impossible that such
a system could ever be adopted.
Some time ago electricity was pro-
posed as light-giving agent in mines,
and within late years attempts have
been made to introduce it as such, but
without much success; for, although it
was found quite possible to illuminate
the bottom of pit and the adjacent
roadways. yet when system of conduct
ors and lamps was extended into the
workings some serious difficulties were
presented. Consequently darkness
has hitherto remained characteristic
of the mine; and toilers in the bowels
OF the earth have continued to lose their
lives to the number Of something like
$50 year by the roof or sides of their
working places falling upon them, their
safety-lamps not giving a sufficiently
good light to enable them to see the de-
fects and protect themselves against
accident from them. Almost q like
number of deaths takes place among
miners every year from miscellaneous
causes exclusive of explosions, and no
doubt many Of these are due to def
cheney Of light Such a death roll is
indeed awful to contemplate; and the
fact that there is every probability of
its being lessened will be hailed with
gladness not only by the mining COM
munity but by the general public
Chambers Journal.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-10-28
Facing a Hostile Audience,

Only the best singing will be toler-
ated by Madrid audience, fact of
which saw On illustration that was al
most tragic. A young American had
come there, much heralded, and under
an engagement for six nights. She
had already sung one night before I
heard her, and had failed to please.
For this evening another prima donna
had been announced, but she had been
taken i'll, and the American girl unex-
pectedly appeared in her stead. The
rest Of the company was as good as
could be desired, and met with a
hearty welcome.
When the American sang she was
quietly disregarded, save when, now
and then, distinct hiss would come
from some of the least fashionable por-
tons of the house. How I pitied her
as saw her stand there, with all those
hostile eyes looking her over, all that
sea of scornful faces turned toward
her How could she go on? But not
to do so would have been to forfeit her
engagement and lose all that was her
due. Upheld by I know not what
sense of stern necessity, she steadily
sang her part through. When scene
was applauded she stood aside, with
her pale face and her set lips, knowing
that no share in the applause was for
her. Not one expression of Spanish
approval or encouragement sustained
her from beginning to end. felt that
no gladiator fighting in an arena ever
displayed q more dauntless courage
The COSMOPOLITAN.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-10-28

TIE Conservatives of England have
lately been greatly shocked by Glad
stones approval of the tunnel project
to connect that country with France.
Ever since Napoleon's time England
has been sensitive about the dangers of
French invasion, and this prejudice
against a tunnel is only one evidence of
morbid feeling that cannot be rea-
soned out, as it has never been reasoned
into the public. A force of fifty men
on either the English or French side
could guard either country against in
vasion from the other: but frightened
people do not regard facts as obvious
as this. The commercial advant ages
OF q tunnel would be important to both
countries, and Mr.. Gladstone does we'll
to make his appeal to the sober sense
of the people. The Conservatives can
not we'll be madden at him than they
are now, and in attacking their preju-
dices on new side he obliges them to
take up new line of thought that may
compel some to come in harmony with
himself. The fear of the tunnel is not
more baseless than the fear of home
rule; but some may have one without
the other, and as the habit of reasoning
rightly grows by use, it will in time be
extended far beyond its original be-
ginnings. 1t is in this way that truth
finally overcomes the most obstinate
prejudices. The man is appealed to on
some side where he is not guarded, and
when his confidence is gained he may
be easily diverted in an entirely oppo'
site direction from that he first intended
tO 90
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-10-28
First Governor Of Illinois.

Few people nowadays, if asked who
was the first Governor of Illinois, would
answer Patrick Henry. Yet this is the
case. An act was passed by the
authorities of Virginia in October, ITS,
creating the county Of Illinois Gin the
State Of Virginia., which embraced the
territory now forming the States of
Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and
Wisconsin, making probably the largest
county ever organized, exceeding the
whole of Great Britain and Ireland; ;
and thus the great orator Of the Ameri-
can revolution, Patrick Henry, then
Governor of Virginia, became the first
Governor of Illinois. NeWS.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-10-28

ay that the Hindoo workman or Iaborer
and his family can live; and they GER
tainly limit their wants to suit their
means; and so instead of seeking by
harder work to better their circum-
stances, they are content to dwell in
huts, to feed on pulse and chupatties,
vegetables, and ghee OR oil; tobacco and
betel-leaf boing their only luxuries.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-10-28

HERE is strong feeling against the
rrotestants in the City of Mexico. The
catholic bishop of that place has for
Doaen his people, under pain of ex-
communication, to sell any of the nee
eSsary articles or tools for their build
"es or other establishments to Prot
essants or persons of any other sect; to
give them personal help, such as that
gwen by masons, blacksmiths, carpen-
'ers' etc.; to advise them or favor any
VI their undertakings. 1t is equally
a0r'ldden to send boys or girls to their
'VAools; to receive the pamphlets or
0o ', which they distribute; to treat
"''l them on religion, even though 1t
W 10 combat them, without the express
rerMlsslon of the bishop; to attend
r'elr ceremonies of worship, and visit
'uelr establishments, though it be
'1erely from curiosity.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-10-28
ONE of the amenities of debate in tn

ONE of the amenities of debate in the
,;tish House of Commons, for which
hat body has lately become notorious,
rcurred in passage at arms be-
zen MIR. Goschen, Chancellor of the
,chequer, and Sir William Vernon
arcourt. The latter, addressing the
brmer in a speech teeming with bitter
ersonalities, said: ''You have gone
kom this bench deserter. We shall
Ike caro- that you do not return to it O